Danish pioneer in the recycling of composites and glass fibre, founded in 2010 by entrepreneurs Jakob Grymer Tholstrup and Anders Linnet and describing itself as the European market leader in recycled chopped glass fibre. Since January 2023 it has run its second production plant in Trofa, near Porto, through Ucomposites, Unipessoal Lda — a facility the company credits with a growing contribution to group revenue and profit.
Ucomposites A/S built its business at Bogø in Denmark on a straightforward proposition: take composite and glass-fibre waste streams and convert them into chopped fibre close to virgin quality, at lower cost and with a significantly better carbon footprint. Its recycled fibres are supplied to demanding industrial customers, including the automotive industry. In January 2023 the company opened its first plant outside Denmark — at Rua Agostinho Moreira da Costa Gonçalves in Bougado, Trofa, just north of Porto — explicitly to strengthen its position in Southern Europe and serve customers in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Turkey and Brazil from a closer base.
The Portuguese bet has matured into a profit centre. In its 2025 annual accounts, as reported by Danish cleantech media in 2026, the company said the Portugal factory was running well and contributing positively to both revenue and earnings, with production allocated between Bogø and Trofa according to raw-material logistics, cost and process — the Trofa unit contributing DKK 10.4 million to results in 2025.
Ucomposites is a textbook example of the industrial logic pulling Danish mid-caps south: circular-economy manufacturing that needs both cost-competitive operations and proximity to Southern European customers. Trofa gives a Danish recycling specialist a production foothold inside Iberia’s automotive and composites supply chains — and gives northern Portugal another Nordic industrial employer.
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